Camelia Hostinar Recognized for Research on Children in Poverty
UC Davis College of Letters & Sciences
June 17, 2020
Camelia Hostinar, an assistant professor of psychology, will
receive an American Psychological Association early career award
for her research investigating how poverty influences children’s
development.
The APA’s developmental psychology Division 7 recently
selected Hostinar for a 2022 Boyd McCandless
Award, which recognizes young scientists who make exceptional
contributions to the field during the first eight years of
their academic career.
Hostinar has had more than 50 papers published in scholarly
journals and books since earning her doctorate in developmental
psychology from the University of Minnesota in 2013. She joined
the UC Davis Department of Psychology and the UC Davis Center for
Poverty and Inequality Research in 2016. She directs
the Social Environment & Stress (SES) Lab at the UC
Davis Center for Mind and Brain.
Camelia Hostinar is a developmental psychologist who studies how
the social environment shapes child and adolescent health,
with a focus on the activity of the stress-response and immune
systems. She is probing the pathways linking poverty to
later risk for disease and investigating protective
psychosocial processes such as supportive
relationships that could help reduce this risk.
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